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Not every delicious meal is super photogenic. While the filling and sauce in this recipe is a pleasing orangey yellow color, this meal doesn't photograph great. But trust us. The first time I made this meal I thought it was a long shot that anyone would happily eat it, but I thought I'd try it anyway. Before I knew it, everyone was helping themselves to seconds, and it has been a family favorite ever since. You can be pretty flexible about the filling ingredients (the protein, the type of apple, the type of rice, the type of nut butter) and the recipe still comes out well, and if you don't care for peppers, you can scoop out tomatoes or eggplants to stuff instead.